Around 1,700 police officers are already present in New Caledonia, where rioters have burned buildings, looted shops and set ...

TWO police on the French Pacific island colony of New Caledonia were shot and wounded today by protesters against a river chemical spill. The officers were hit by shotgun pellets fired by protesters ...

Joanne Elias, from Australia, who is at a resort in Noumea with her ... pushing claims that French police officers had shot ...